Display holder for bakery goods



May 19, 1942. E.:' 515mm. 2. .7

- DISPLAY HOLDER FOR BAKERY GOODS Filed-June 21, 1940 ,liga

Patented'May, 19, 1 42 I Q UNITED; STATES PATENT OFFICE msrmr nomma FOR BAKERY Goons Erich o. Steudel, Chicago, n1. Application June 21, 1940, Serial No. 341,641

2 Claims. (01. 229-25) 2 This invention relates to improvements infood Fig. 4 is a top plan view ofa cake circle" receptacles; and more particularly to pie and showing my invention incorporated therein. cake plates and to methods of using the-same. Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line It is now common practice in bakeries, upon 55 of Fig. 4.

\ baking pies and cakes, to remove them immedi 5 Fig. 6 is a top plan viewof a modified form.

ately from the oven tins or pans and to place of the cake circle shown in Fig. 4.

them in or upon other receptacles of more ap-- Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken on the lin propriate character and appearance and of a 1-1 of Fig. 6, and

somewhat stifi fibrous material, which the cus- Fig. 8 is a side view of a pair of pie plates as tomers receive with the articles of purchase. 10 they are employed for display purposes.

This practice has not been entirely satisfac- Referring further to the embodiment of Figs. tory because the vapors and warm air or gases 1, 2 and 3, the molded pie plate I comprises a become trapped in and below the food article fibrous bottom or article bearing part I having causing its crust soon to become saturated with a flared peripheral side wall 2 and a flange 3.

hot vapors and consequently become soggy. Such 16 The bottom I and wall 2 are provided each with vapor also prevents surface dryness and retards a series of perforatory apertures l spaced quick cooling of the baked article to a degree such throughout the effective pie contacting area of that the same may be properly frosted or otherthe plate to allow for. the escape of gas and wise decorated as the case may be. vapors emanating from the article placed therein.

Furthermore, for display purposes, it is cus-- 20 The walls 2 are also provided with two or more tomary to invert one holder or pie plate to elongated slots 5 which serve both to provide for serve as a bottom support and to place thereon ready access to the bottom of the crust of the another such plate with the baked article therearticle placed in the plate, so that a knife or in. In order to remove such article in its plate other instrument may be inserted between the from the lower plate or support it has been cusbottom of thepie plate and the article placed tomary for lack of greater convenience, to shift therein, and to provide a means whereby the both plates to the edge of .the display rack or fingers of the hand may readily be inserted thereshelf inorder to be able to grasp and tip the in, 'as through openings 5, for ready withdrawal assembly and to put a hand under the container of the pie plate with its article from the display plate, as for necessary sales handling. Otherrack. It is to be understood that pie plates are of Fig. 1.

wise, if the outer edge of the plate were grasped usually inverted for supports and that pie plates there would be danger of deforming or breaking bearing the articles to be sold are placed therethe crust or icing. on for display purposes.

It was to cure these defects that the present In Figs. 4 to 'l, inclusive, I have illustrated two invention was directed. Other andmore specific improved forms of cake circles, made of fibrous objects are to provide a pie or cake plate with material Su h as dis in y Reissue Patent positive'ventilating means: to so make such a l 3 granted n y 7. 1 plate that it will retain its normal form and The device of Figs. 4 and 5 comprises a fla stillness, in use, and'may readily be grasped and cake-bearing dy P i having w w raised when usedfor display and sales purposes; 40 channels 1 forming circular ribs and a centrally to provide suitable mean or form in a plate disposed depression 8 about which said ribs are to allow for ready agcess t t lower crust or concentric. Inthis circleI have provided a series bottom of a pie or cake when placed in such a small perforations a spaced throughout the I we Sim cake bearing portion of the circle and also in the ptacle and to provide a 9 a mex, ribs 1 and depression 8. And I also provide a pensive device of this character capable of meet- Imam of mutually spaced larger apertmes I t bakery needs and which will appear p y mg presen in the side walls of the channels I. The form neat and mm to bakery cummers' shown in Figs. 6 and 7 comprises a fiat cake bear- Tms imentim is illustrated by accom' ing portion ll having .downward depressions l2 4 D -W ng w n inwhich! which serve as feet to support saidportion ll Fi ure 1 is a top plan viewof a p P horizontally. I have also distributed apertures F 2 i5 8 S n l v w' k n n the l l3 throughout the cake bearing portion II and the side walls of the feet I2.

Fig. s'is a perspective view of a somewhat It will now be apparent that all vapors and modifledpi pl te shown bottom side up.' hot air emanating from the bottom. of a cake placed on either of said circles will pass out through the apertures 9 in the cake bearing portions 8 or' I I, or into the depressions l or I! and thence outwardly through the' apertures III or ii; or in the case of the device shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the hot air and vapors will also pass-out through the larger apertures 10 in the walls of. channels I.

It will also be apparent that when a hot article is placed in the pie plate I' or on either cake circle any hot vapors orgas emanating from the articles will immediately pass out into the atmosphere through the apertures therefor which are spaced throughout the effective areas of the devices, and hence thereby substantially eliminating the possibility of the bottom crust of the article becoming soggy as is the case when the hot vapors and gases are trapped therein. i

As it is customary in invert a pie plate for sup-, port, and to place thereon another pie plate with the article to be sold contained therein for dis-- play purposes, it has been impossible heretofore to remove the pie plate with its article from the inverted plate by merely g'raspingJhe same and removing it. Itwas necessary to shift the invert'ed plate and the pie containing plate to the edge of the display counter or rack and then to slide the pie containing platevwith its contents of! the inverted plate onto the hand. Even this cautious method of removing the pie plate with its contents is not satisfactory because of the great possibility of cracking the top crust or the cake icing. But, using my system, it will be apparent from Fig. 8 of the drawing that it is only necessary to place the fingers of the hand through'the slots 6 of the lower plate and then raise both plates in one movement. Although long slots have been specifically referred to and shown only in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, it is to be understood that any form of large opening may be utilized just so long as it is adequate to receive the fingers, for instance round fingerholes IS on Fig. 3. r

Heretofore wedges or cuts of pies particularly this is that a knife or other cut-raising apparatus must first be inserted between the pie crust and the wall of the plate and then on the bottom of the plate and the bottom crust. By utilizing the elongated apertures I in ;my present construction it can readily be seen that a knife or other device may be inserted through the slot 5 and between the bottom of the pie plate and the bottom crust of the pie as the knife is inserted along the inner face of the plate, on a horizontal plane, thereby loosening the pie from the bottom of the plate for its ready withdrawal from the pie plate in the usual manner.

It is to be understood that some of the details set forth may be altered or omitted, without departing from the spirit of the/invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

l. A plate of the character described comprising a sheet of fibrous material formed with a bottom surface having perforations scattered through substantially the entire area thereof, andan outwardly flaring side wall having oppositely disposed elongated finger and knife receiving' openings therein and also provided with a plurality of perforations between said finger and knife receiving openings, at least one of said finger and knife receiving openings having the lower straight edge thereof substantially in the plane of the bottom surface of the plate for insertion of a knife between the article contained therein and the bottom surface of the plate so as to facilitate the removal of the article from the plate. a Y Q 2. A plate of the character described comprising a sheet of fibrous material formed with a bottom surface and an outwardly flaring side wall having oppositely disposed elongated finger and knife receiving openings therein,-at least one of said finger and knife receiving openings having the lower straight edge thereof substantially in the plane of the bottom surface of the plate for insertion ofa knife between the article contained therein andrthe bottom surface of the plate so as to facilitate the removal of the article from the plate.

ERICH 0. S'IEUDEL. 

